Adam Levin

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The timing of the discovery of the vulnerability also works against organizations; many IT teams and cybersecurity personnel who would typically be working to apply patches and mitigate would-be cyberthreats often work with skeleton crews over the holiday season. The combination of these three factors represents a worst-case scenario. .

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 23, 2021

To boost productivity, they must leverage cloud infrastructure and participate in agile software development. Leading-edge cybersecurity systems in service today apply machine learning in some amazing ways to help large enterprises identify and instantly respond to cyber threats. SMBs today face a daunting balancing act.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 6, 2021

As digital transformation kicks into high gear, it’s certainly not getting any easier to operate IT systems securely, especially for small- and medium-sized businesses. SMBs are tapping into cloud infrastructure and rich mobile app experiences, making great leaps forward in business agility, the same as large enterprises.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 17, 2023

Cybersecurity Ventures predicts by 2031 ransomware will cost victims $265 billion annually, and it will affect a business, consumer, or device every 2 seconds. Data at rest encryption: Encrypt business critical data, wherever it resides, on servers on-premises or in the cloud. What is Ransomware?

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Red, blue and purple teams simulate cyberattacks and incident responses to test an organization’s cybersecurity readiness. Blue teams consist of security analysts, network engineers and system administrators. The red team literally tests the effectiveness of the organization’s defensive measures — often without warning.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Shikitega uses legitimate cloud services to host some of its C2 (command & control) servers and a very light ELF dropper (370B) to initiate the next stages. Each module focuses on a unique task, for example, downloading and executing Metasploit meterpreter, escalating privileges on the targeted systems, and maintaining persistence.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 3, 2022

It’s not difficult to visualize how companies interconnecting to cloud resources at a breakneck pace contribute to the outward expansion of their networks’ attack surface. Its function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon. Related: Why ‘SBOM’ is gaining traction.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 10, 2019

Our rising dependence on business systems that leverage cloud services and the gig economy to accomplish high-velocity innovation has led to a rise in productivity. One such go-to APT technique is to remotely leverage legit administrative tools to carry out malicious activities — under cover.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

One of the promising cybersecurity trends that I’ve been keeping an eye on is this: SOAR continues to steadily mature. Security orchestration, automation and response, or SOAR, is a fledgling security technology stack that first entered the cybersecurity lexicon about six years ago. Just ask Capital One , Marriott or Equifax.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 13, 2023

Such a never-ending hunt for exploits could leave system administrators with little to no time to fix vulnerabilities and keep their systems secure, leaving a wide range of systems vulnerable to exploitation, causing widespread and significant damage.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Related: The ‘gamification’ of cybersecurity training. Ransomware, business email compromises and direct ACH system hacks continue to morph and intensify. First, companies are more reliant on digital systems than ever before. The exposure faced by SMBs is profound. That’s just not the case anymore.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2021

Researchers from Tenable have disclosed a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in HPE Edgeline Infrastructure Manager (EIM), tracked as CVE-2021-29203 , that could be exploited by attackers to compromise a customer’s cloud infrastructure. Rated critical, with a CVSS score of 9.8, Tenable posted a proof of concept of the attack.

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Data Matters

MAY 17, 2018

SB 315 expressly did not apply to: members of the same household; access to a computer of computer network for a “legitimate business activity”; cybersecurity “defensive measures that are designed to prevent or detect unauthorized computer access”; and “violations of terms of service or user agreements.”.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The surge in attacks makes clear that many cities are unprepared for cybersecurity threats. To tackle the challenge, government leaders, urban planners, and other key stakeholders should make cybersecurity best practices an integral part of the smart city governance, design, and operations, and not just an afterthought.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that businesses will fall victim to a ransomware attack every 11 seconds with the global ransomware damage costs reaching $20 billion by 2021. Do the storage/system administrators also own and manage the encryption keys used for data-at-rest encryption?

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2023

These tools allow for the central management and deployment of patches across multiple systems simultaneously, streamlining the process and saving time. Downtime Patching Linux systems usually requires restarting or rebooting the entire system, and this can result in downtime.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 23, 2019

Traditional approaches to cybersecurity in the energy sector have been to invest in disparate products and technologies. Cyber defense should be part of every power grid’s digital transformation strategy–not only to ensure the power generation and reliability of the grid, but also to protect sensitive or private data.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 20, 2023

Organizations often utilize multiple vulnerability scanning solutions for assessing different aspects of their IT infrastructure like endpoints, cloud assets, databases, and network devices. Furthermore, cloud-based vulnerability scanners have broadened scanning capabilities beyond local or remote limits.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 28, 2023

How Automated Patch Management Works Patch management is one of the most important aspects of cybersecurity. Software updates are critical for keeping a system’s integrity and security intact. It supports patching for Windows, macOS, and Linux systems, as well as third-party applications.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2020

Researchers disclosed a flaw in VMware Cloud Director platform, tracked as CVE-2020-3956 , that could be abused to takeover corporate servers. VMware Cloud Director is a cloud service-delivery platform that allows organizations to operate and manage successful cloud-service businesses. The flaw received a score of 8.8

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Recent years presented a torrent of research showing how vulnerable RDP systems are for organizations not taking additional cybersecurity precautions. On a Sunday in February 2018, the Colorado CISO’s office set up a temporary server to test a new cloud-based business process. Remote Desktop Software and Cybersecurity.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 23, 2018

Gartner predicts that the worldwide public cloud services market will grow 17 percent in 2018 to $287.8 While the increase in cloud migration is by no means a new trend, we are seeing more and more organizations seeking cloud-like consolidation, whether on-premises or in a private or public cloud. billion, up from $246.8

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2022

VMaaS is a way to deliver these services via the cloud rather than downloading and running on-premises software. VMaaS is a continuous process of identifying, assessing, reporting on, and managing vulnerabilities across on-premises and cloud identities, workloads, platform configurations, and infrastructure. Key Differentiators.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

By applying the benefits of software-defined networking (SDN) to traditional hardware-centric networks, SD-WAN offers enterprises improved flexibility, scalability, performance, and agility for today’s virtual, edge, branch and cloud IT environments. Experienced administrators understand the importance of inspecting all network traffic.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As highlighted in the 2019 Thales Data Threat Report , an increasing number of organizations across the globe are now using sensitive data on digitally transformative technologies like cloud, virtualization, big data, IoT, blockchain, etc. The second layer of the stack covers system-level protection controls.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Privileged accounts are among an organization’s biggest cybersecurity concerns. These accounts give admins control over data, applications, infrastructure and other critical assets that average system users don’t have permission to access or change. Privileged Access Management vs IAM.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company , has identified a series of sophisticated successful phishing attacks against the management and executives of more than 150 companies around the world. Cloud based corporate services, such as MS Sway, introduce new challenges to traditional cyber risk management frameworks.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

System administrators are advised to implement Dynamic Access Policies (DAP) to halt VPN tunnels with DefaultADMINGroup or DefaultL2LGroup, deny access with Default Group Policy, and ensure all VPN session profiles point to a custom policy. The fix: Cisco has provided interim measures to mitigate the vulnerability.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 24, 2024

Read more about the different types of firewalls , including web application firewalls, cloud firewalls, and UTM. Deny and alert: Notify systems administrator of potentially malicious traffic. Order of Firewall Rules Firewall rules are typically followed in order of restrictiveness.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 30, 2020

Enter micro-segmentation; or microsegmentation, depending on which cybersecurity vendor you’re talking to. Software innovation happens by combining “microservices” within “software containers” that circulate in virtual “storage buckets,” spun up in Amazon Web Services (AWS,) Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 31, 2023

CISA strongly urges system administrators and other high-value targeted users (attorneys, HR Staff, Top Management.) Highly targeted resources such as email systems, file servers, remote access systems must be protected with phishing -resistant authentication in priority.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2020

The prospect of remotely-taught lessons remaining widespread for some time to come has profound privacy and cybersecurity implications, going forward. Overnight, those in charge must learn how to operate all of our elementary, junior high and high schools as if they were digital-native startups.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

Specifically it said, “Computer security research is a key driver of improved cybersecurity,” Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Now you've got in addition to all the other things that have evolved and as quickly as they have evolved, you've now got cloud and IoT. ” So what is is the common good? They're there.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 14, 2023

There was this big migration of data from on-prem to cloud, and the next big shift is going to be the migration of data into these generative apps," he says. The report, Ransomware 2023, put out jointly by cybersecurity vendors Securin, CybersecurityWorks, Ivanti, and Cyware, highlights the use of vulnerabilities within ransomware attacks.

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